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[Impact Pete]

[Entwood]

If I look at my initial outlay on a 1 year old Transit and the relatively minor jobs over 13 years it has been one of my better buys.

Anyway guys back to the original question? !

It probably is an MOT failure as there isn't much other  structure at the front.
Do you have a picture?

ok hope this works;

HTH 

[Impact Pete]

Thank you for that what did I do wrong! I clicked the link within the image as per tunnies how to, tried it 3 times not sure why mine didn't work, there should be another picture to.   

[Entwood]

Thank you for that what did I do wrong! I clicked the link within the image as per tunnies how to, tried it 3 times not sure why mine didn't work, there should be another picture to.

If you look at my post (choose quote) you will see that all I did was change dl=0 at the end to dl=1 .. it's just something you have to do to get it to work ..

the second one has no picture linked .. it just goes to a folder ?

[Impact Pete]

[Marks DTM Calib]

Christ that's pretty bad!

Your in the hands of the tester but to me that's a big fail

And me, it would be the VW, the Transit is quite possibly the worst built van out there at the moment sadly.

[aaronjb]

Jesus, looks like you just fished it out of a lake!

[Impact Pete]

Christ that's pretty bad!

Your in the hands of the tester but to me that's a big fail

And me, it would be the VW, the Transit is quite possibly the worst built van out there at the moment sadly.

Yep it looks bad but it's like it's been made out of a worse piece of steel than the rest, all around it is fine and in much better nick.
Also MOT was done last June so I find it hard to believe it has got this bad in under a year, it must of had a lot of dirt covering perhaps a smaller hole that the tester didn't see. It's tested at Alans Test Centre in Derby.

Do we think a second hand swap out would be easier than a few plates of weld? due to the ease of access I could weld a few plates over the holes (assuming there is any good metal left) then again its a big hole so the plate might weaken it more I guess, Ive not shopped round yet or read any how toos on swapping one out

[Marks DTM Calib]

Might have to go the weld approach as I recall the whole front being a single piece.

[Impact Pete]

Might have to go the weld approach as I recall the whole front being a single piece.

The part is available second hand usually with the intercooler with it and looks like only a couple of bolts hence why I originally wondered if it was structural and therefore MOT worthy, but due to the rust the bolts may be a pig to get off